The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-18


chihuahua, Mexico.
At recent christening the baby wore robe
OF lace 1870 years older than herself.
A bill has been presented in congress for
the coinage of $500, 900 into copper cents.
The police have made recently numerous
captures OF counterfeiters in the city OF
Mexico.
There Is prospect that a steamboat line
from Providence TO New York will be renewed
in the spring
The attempt made to grow coffee and tobac'
co on the sugar plantations Of Cuautla, More
los, has been successful.
The peanut harvest In Virginia is estlmat-
ed at 1000, 900 bushels and nine peanut fac
tories clean and sort the nuts for market.
White pepper frequently has undergone
process of bleaching by chlorine, which i'm
proves its color but deteriorates the quality
An elderly minister at a social party, where
the young people were dancing, being asked
II he danced, replied, mo, I am not educated
at that end"
An English physician recommends football
for girls. lie says 1t is an exhilarating game
and would prove highly beneficial to young
ladies who are apt TO moroid or be hysterical.
The most desperate gambler atAix-les- Banes
this fall is an old woman Greek by birth. She
plays high and with great GOODNESS. Her per
sonal appearance Is said to be the reverse OF
attractive.
Some fashionable women in Philadelphia have
the backs and seats OF bedroom chairs up
holistered with silk and filed with broken
balsam boughs, which give fragrance for the
whole season.
Eighty thousand socaistic pamphlets were
distributed about the streets OF Berlin few
days ago by women. The police were unable
to discover the distributors until the pamphlets
were all gone
Workmen laying the foundation OF a rail
road shed In Portland, Me-, on Sept. /, found
ice thirteen feet below the surface. This
shows that In a hot summer Maine thaws out
for distance down.
The principal street In Jacksonville, Cal, rs
eighty feet wide, with fourteen-foot sidewalks
on each side, leaving roadway Gfty-two feet
wide. 1t is grand thoroughfare and Is now
being covered with btumenzed rock.
A popular but silly fashion is to stick LOT
of imitation bugs and spiders on the large silk
umbrella shades for high standing lamps
which are now so extensively used In drawing.
rooms aud libraries, and which make eucher
parties so picturesque.
"While Augusta has appeared to be stand
Ing STILL" remarks The Chronicle, mo city In
the south, with the exception of one or two In
the mineral regions, has invested SO much
money in manufactures. In cotton manufac'
turing Augusta leads the south"
Joseph valois, of Peterborough, Canada,
accused Of having crminally assaulted his own
daughter, was dismissed By the magistrate,
the girl having declared that her first story
was falsehood instigated by her stepmother,
who was angry with her father.
Workmen repairing street at San Juan,
San Benito county, Cal, Friday evening OF
last week unearthed several hundred skele-
tons. The street having been in constant use
for the past century, the skeletons must be
those of Indian tribes that once inhabited the
San Juan valley.
Dovecotes are to be established for carrier
pigeons on the roof Of the national palace Of
the City OF Mexico and at the castle OF Cha
pultcpec for the use OF the government. The
principal employment of the birds will proba-
bly, be to carry dispatches between t. two
places above named.
The grand jury of the United States court
in Arizona has discovered that organized cat
te.thleves have been stealing cattle from the
Indians on the San Carlos reservation during
the past year. Several prominent citizens are
implicated. Much of the Indian trouble 10
due to cattle-stealing.
The next great invention prophesled by Mr..
Edison is the turning OF coal into motive |
power without the mediation OF steam. Now
about three-fourths Of the energy in coal Is
wasted while getting at the other fourth. II
the invention of producing electricity directly
from coal succeeds, a steamer that now burns
$50 tons of coal a day will burn 25 tons In
stead.
The papers of the City OF Mexico are again
agltating the question OF free printing paper,
or at least demand a considerable reduction 10 |
the present importation duties on that article. !
1t has beeu clearly shown that the present Inn /
portation duties are such a burden as to make
the publishing business Improbable 10 Mexico
and to entirely deprive the masses OF the peo
pie Of cheap literature
The city council Of Laredo, Tex, declined
the proposition OF the Ornelas Bridge COM
pany to build a street-railway bridge across
the Rio Grande, but consented TO grant the
franchise on condition that the city receive
5000 per annum for twenty-five years, at
which time new adjustment must be made.
The bridge company was given thirty days In
which to accept or reject the proposition.
Two hundred and fifty slaughter-house
laborcrs went out on a strike In the City of
Mexico last month because they did not wish
10 wear the nrescrlhed hrass badges Ordered